"like" vs "as if"
Jun. 11th, 2008 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dcseainHe looked like he was happy.
He looked as if he were happy.
Are 'like' and 'as if', as used above, synonyms?
Discuss, and please provide your native, or first-learned, dialect of English.
He looked as if he were happy.
Are 'like' and 'as if', as used above, synonyms?
Discuss, and please provide your native, or first-learned, dialect of English.
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Like, AS IF!
Date: 2008-06-12 04:24 am (UTC)Re: Like, AS IF!
Date: 2008-06-12 11:35 am (UTC)Which context is that?
Re: Like, AS IF!
Date: 2008-06-12 04:53 pm (UTC)"Treated me like I was an adult" is an acceptable usage to me. I was mostly raised in southeastern Virginia, and I don't know where else my dialect has come from with the exception of military schools, private schools and the media.